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[Photoshop 6.0]
After a long time doing things the hard way (eraser tool and a *lot* of "do-overs") I saw a thread regarding using layer masks for compositing multiple images into a collage. "Hmm," I thought, "that sounds a lot easier, and reversible, too." So, I decided to try it today.
One of my brother Eagles celebrated his 93rd birthday recently and I wanted to composite 5-6 photos of the celebration into a single collage image for the newsletter. I loaded a couple of the images, created a working layer copy for each, then added a layer mask to each working layer. Grabbed a large soft brush and set it to black and went to work. Great! Painting with black easily got rid of portions of the individual images I didn’t want. Then I grabbed the move tool, did a little repositioning of each layer to adjust the ultimate boundaries between the image portions in the collage.
Here’s where it gets wierd. After adjusting the positions, I went back to the brush, changed the brush color to white, and tried to add back in some of the stuff previously eliminated. Nothing. No white shows on the mask icon in the layers palette, no original image restored.
Now, I can immediately switch back to black and start erasing again, and I can see the little bounding box on the layer mask icon, so I know I have the mask properly selected. Repeated switching back and forth between white and black simply results in a growing area of black, the white just does not seem to want to paint. I tried a 50% gray, and nothing happens when I paint in the black area, but as expected, painting in the remaining image area results in a semi-transparent area where painted(??).
This is probably something very simple that I am missing due to my lack of experience with layer masking, but it’s got me stumped. I would appreciate any help anyone can offer. Thanks.
Scott
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